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Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number

By Alfred S. Posamentier , Ingmar Lehmann

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
1591022002, 9781591022008
Open Library ID
OL8851028M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
11 MB (11038073 bytes)
Pages
324\324
Topic
Biology\\Biophysics
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

In this delightful layperson's introduction to one of math's most interesting phenomena, Drs Posamentier and Lehmann review p's history from pre-biblical times to the 21st century, the many amusing and mind-boggling ways of estimating p over the centuries, quirky examples of obsessing about p (including an attempt to legislate its exact value), and useful applications of p in everyday life, including statistics.

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